Sicco Leendert Mansholt

Sicco Leendert Mansholt,
(born Sept. 13, 1908, Ulrum, near Groningen, Neth.—died June 30, 1995, Wapserveen, Neth.), Dutch politician who , was the guiding force behind the Mansholt Plan, a proposed radical restructuring of Western European agriculture that became the basis for the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Economic Community (EEC) and its successor, the European Community (EC). Mansholt, who was born into a dairy-farming family, studied at the School for Tropical Agriculture in Deventer, Neth., and, after gaining experience in farming (1924-34), worked for three years on a tea plantation on Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). After fighting with ... (100 of 188 words)